Two counties in Northern California were set to allow many businesses to reopen Monday as a direct challenge to Newsom's order. Yuba and Sutter counties north of Sacramento would join Modoc County, which began allowing hair salons, churches, restaurants, and the county’s only movie theater to reopen Friday as long...
How Cafes, Bars, Gyms, Barbershops and Other ‘Third Places’ Create Our Social Fabric
Social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic implies many painful losses. Among them are so-called “third places” – the restaurants, bars, gyms, houses of worship, barbershops, and other places we frequent that are neither work nor home. The third place is a concept in sociology and urban planning that recognizes the...
It’s Time to Review AB 5 If Policymakers Really Want to Restart California’s Economy
“Bring Back Borello!” will never work as a rallying cry, but it might be a timely agenda item for California legislators to seriously consider when the coronavirus coast is clear for them to return to Sacramento. In the meantime, the April 30 second anniversary of the state Supreme Court’s Dynamex decision and the Assembly...
FDA Allows Emergency Use of Remdesivir for Coronavirus
WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators on Friday allowed emergency use of an experimental drug that appears to help some coronavirus patients recover faster. It is the first drug shown to help fight COVID-19, which has killed more than 230,000 people worldwide. The FDA said in a statement that Gilead Science’s intravenous...
Fresno City College Will Be New Site for Free COVID-19 Tests
Fresno City College has been selected as one of 80 COVID-19 testing sites in California, marking an expansion of the state's test capabilities, Fresno County Health Director David Pomaville said Friday morning. The state's goal is to conduct 10,500 tests daily, which will enable health officials statewide to more quickly...
Sudden Vanishing of Sports Due to Coronavirus Will Cost at Least $12 Billion, Analysis Says
[aggregation-styles] ESPN The sudden disappearance of sports will erase at least $12 billion in revenue and hundreds of thousands of jobs, an economic catastrophe that will more than double if the college football and NFL schedules are wiped out this fall by the coronavirus pandemic, an analysis conducted for ESPN...
The Pandemic Is Too Important to Be Left to the Scientists
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription For all of us who have watched with mounting terror as President Trump offers the public a series of half-baked ideas and hunches on how to handle, treat and cure covid-19, the solution seems obvious: Follow the science. Trump’s detractors have taken up this mantra....
California Schools Have Lost Contact With Thousands of Students More Than a Month Into Closures
[aggregation-styles] Politico SACRAMENTO — More than a month after California schools closed due to the coronavirus, thousands of students are still unaccounted for as teachers struggle to connect with them in the era of distance learning. The California Department of Education is not tracking student attendance statewide, but districts have...
California County Defies Governor’s Virus Shutdown Order
SACRAMENTO — A rural California county allowed nonessential businesses to reopen and diners to eat in restaurants on Friday, becoming the first to defy Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide orders barring such moves during the coronavirus pandemic. Modoc County is “moving forward with our reopening plan,” Modoc County Deputy Director of...
Virus Delays Prison Time for Hot Pockets Heir, Ex-CEO
An heir to the Hot Pockets fortune and a former investment executive who participated in the college admissions cheating scheme won't get to serve their punishments at home, but they can delay going to prison until this summer because of the coronavirus pandemic, a judge has ruled. Michelle Janavs, whose...